Sitting in a hostel room with a bottle of cheap nasty rum, believeing this would be the last night of our amazing journey we decided to try and sum it up... So RTW - Everything will be Fine. 363 days ago we started our quest.New bags, new clothes, hair straigteners and our Sunday best! 16 Countries later & 28,000 miles. Theres been many ups & downs, but mostly huge smiles! We've seen desserts & monsoons, & continents .... four. Sunrises, sund...

Back in Quito after our excellent trip out to the Galapagos, I still felt as though I was on the boat, swaying slightly. Our plan was to visit the Equator then get on a bus and head straight north for Columbia. Well this didnt happen as we ended up in Quito another 3 nights. What kept us there? The story goes.... Visiting the Equator, we met a lovely Aussy guy Tim who is mostly to blame for putting us behind schedule. We had great fun at the equator, there are a...

Wow, the Galapagos. Our 4 days on the boat Daphne was fantastic. This is suppose to be a first class boat and we certainly have no complaints. We were very well looked after on the boat with great food and real good service. A group of 16 people in total, a mix of nationalities, English, Aussy, French, Italian, Norwegian, Swiss and Belgian. Very lucky for us the 2 Norwegian guys were Biologists, specialising in seabirds so made fab guides for us and their enthusi...

Crossing the border into Ecuador had not been as bad as we had feared. We had been given the usual scare stories, and things did not look good for us as we ended up in a mini bus and not an international bus as we had been promiced. But a nice chap helped us all the way over the border and onto an onwards bus. It is a very strange crossing with another bridge separating the countries but it seems alot of dead mans land belonging to neither Country, about 3kms in ...

Leaving Cuenca we spent allday on a bus to get back out to the coast to a town called Puerto Lopez to go Whale Watching. Puerto Lopez... Hmmm not a great township, but well worth the visit. We paid just $20 for a day trip out into the Pacific Ocean on a rickety old boat in choppy conditions to seek out the biggest creatures to of ever graced this earth, the blue whale. WOW, took my breath away, is defo a highlight. We found a pod of 4 which really put a show on...